A.D. 1689. Elected to Oxford. Philip Dwight'. William Hodgson2. Brook Bridges3. Richard Roberts. Thomas Pelling*. Elected to Cambridge. Philip Bouquett, F. Edward Ward. Stephen Phillips". Howell Price', F. Admitted into St. Peter's College. Francis Lynn, Cambridge, 1691. Gibbon Sutton, Cambridge, 1692. John Robinson, Oxford, 1692. Robert Luck, Oxford, 1692. Arthur Trevor, Oxford, 1693. Samuel Beane, Oxford, 1693. Edmund Naylor abiit [1693]. John Powell abiit [1690]. William Adams, Oxford, 1693. James Lake abiit [1690]. Abraham Chitty abiit [1693-4]. Thomas Knightley, Camb., 1693. "How Beaumont's judgment check'd what Fletcher writ; How Shadwell hasty, Wycherley was slow; But, for the passions, Southern sure and Rowe." Johnson's Lives of the Poets; Campbell's Specimens of British Poets, lxxxv.; Campbell's edition of Shakespeare, xi.; Nichols' Lit. Hist. i. 79, ii. 596–7; Bishop Newton's Life; Hist. Reg. iii., Chron. Diary, 543, v. 22. 46. 48; Noble's Contn. of Granger, ii. 248-51; Dictionnaire Historique.] 1 [P. DWIGHT wrote one of the Oxford poems on the return of William the Third from Ireland, in 1690. He proceeded M.A. in 1696, and accumulated the degrees of B.D. and D.D. July 12, 1712;-vicar of Fulham, Middlesex, 1708;-died, December 29, 1729, and was buried in the churchyard of his parish. Philip Dwight was brother to Samuel and Edward (Admissions 1686, and Election 1692).-Faulkner's Fulham, 47. 115; Hist. Reg. xvii., Chron. Diary, 4.] 2 [W. HODGSON wrote a copy of verses among the Oxford poems on King William's return from Ireland, in 1690; rector of Woodnorton, Norfolk, 1708.-Bloomfield's Norfolk, viii. 316.] 3 [B. BRIDGES, matriculated June 17, as aged 18, and the son of John Bridges, Esq., of Burton, Northamptonshire. He wrote a copy of verses, printed with the Oxford poems, on the return of King William from Ireland, 1690. One Brook Bridges was rector of Wadenho, Northamptonshire, in 1719; but nothing has been found to prove his identity with this Westminster student.-Bridges' Northamptonshire, ii. 291.] *T. PELLING, [author of one of the Oxford poems on the return of King William the Third from Ireland, in 1690;M.A. 1696. All the benefices which were attributed to him in the former edition of this work, were held by Dr. John Pelling, who brought the famous suit against Whiston for heresy.—Oxf. Grad.] 5 P. BOUQUETT, Hebrew professor, Cambridge. [He was of French extraction. B.A. 1692;-M.A. 1696;-B.D. 1706;D.D. 1711. When a vacancy occurred in the professorship of Hebrew, in 1704, which it was thought desirable to confer on Sike, the famous oriental scholar, Bouquett was appointed to fill the office until Sike appeared to be elected, which he did in August, 1705. He was elected to fill that office permanently, August 24, 1712; and died, aged 79, being the Senior Fellow of his college, February 12, 1748. He refused to sign the petition against Dr. Bentley. Cole describes him as 66 born in France, an old miserly refugee, died rich in college, and left his money among the French refugees. He was a meagre, thin man, went partly double, and for his oddities and way of living was much ridiculed." He contributed a copy of elegiacs to the Cambridge poems, on the death of George the First and accession of George the Second, in 1727.-Cole's MSS., xxxiii. 275, xlv. 244. 334; Monk's Life of Bentley, i. 186. 329-30; Gent. Mag. xviii. 92.] A.D. 1690. Elected to Oxford. Anthony Alsop1. Thomas Chambers. Richard Llewellyn. George Merrill. Elected to Cambridge. William Wade', [F.] William Denny". John Hanway'. Erasmus Lewis". Charles StephensR. Admitted into St. Peter's College. Brian Fairfax, Cambridge, 1693. George Diops Stoughton, Oxf., 1694. Peter Foulkes, Oxford, 1694. Richard Lyndon, Cambridge, 1693. Michael Busteed, Cambridge, 1694. Ralph Gilbert abiit' [1692]. Leonard Thompson abiit [1692]. Ralph Grove, Oxford, 1693. Edmund Browne abiit [1692]. Samuel Dunstar, Cambridge, 1693. Gilbert Malkin, Cambridge, 1692. Richard Newton, Oxford, 1694. Joseph Peters, Oxford, 1694. Charles Whitworth, Camb., 1694. Miles Mossum abiit [1692]. A. ALSOP, [installed] prebendary of Winchester [May 25, 1715];-rector of Brightwell, Berks; an eminent writer of odes in Latin ;-died [June 16], 1726. [M.A. 1696. He was held in high estimation by Dean Aldrich, under whom he filled the responsible posts of tutor and censor of Christ Church, and is said to have been " a principal ornament of his house at a time when it was in its highest repute." The manner in which Alsop discharged his college duties brought him to the notice of Sir Jonathan Trelawny, Bishop of Winchester (Election 1667), who made him his chaplain, and also gave him his stall and his living. He refused many offers of further advancement in life, and spent his days in retirement, which enabled him to indulge his natural inclination for classical literature; in this branch of learning he was a great proficient, and possessed a remarkably accurate taste. He published, in 1698, "Fabularum Esopicarum Delectus," to which he prefixed a poetical dedication to Lord Scudamore, and a preface, in which he took part with Boyle against Bentley; this accounts for the disparaging terms in which he is spoken of by the latter; on the other hand, this production is much praised by Dr. Walton, and also by Dr. W. King (Election 1681). Many fugitive pieces of his, and amongst them some poems addressed to Sir John Dolben (Admissions 1700), appeared in the earlier numbers of the Gentleman's Magazine; others are to be found in Dodsley's Collection; and, in July, 1748, there were printed proposals for collecting and publishing, by subscription, his Latin odes, which was afterwards done by Sir Francis Barnard (Election 1729), in 1752. He took the degree of B.D. at Oxford, in 1706, and was incorporated in the same degree at Cambridge. He was proctor for the diocese of Winchester in the Convocation. An unfortunate law-suit, in which he was cast, compelled him to leave England, in 1717, and he did not return until 1720. The circumstances are referred to in Bishop Atterbury's Correspondence. His death was caused by the falling in of the bank, as he was walking by the river side in his own garden. His picture is in Christ Church Hall; and among the persons who were under his tuition at Christ Church was James, Earl of Salisbury, who has perpetuated the fact by the inscription on the foundation-stone of Peckwater Quadrangle (see J. Savage, Admissions 1687).-Hist. and Antiq. iii. 454, Appx. 293; Cole's Athenæ, Y, Incorporations; Atterbury's Corresp. i. 454, ii. 42-4. 47. 92. 96, v. 291-3; Hist. and Antiq. of Winchester (1773), 276; King's Works, i. 236; Watt's Bib. Brit.] 2 W. WADE, [installed] canon of Windsor [February 19], 1720. [He was born in Africa ;-B.A. 1693 ;— Fellow of his College, and M.A. 1696. He signed the petition to the Bishop of Ely against Bentley, 1710, with the same reservation as Colbatch-that only the matters therein contained should be taken cognizance of by the visitor. He died at Bath, on the 1st of February, 1732, in the 62nd year of his age; but his body was brought to Windsor, and interred in the north aisle of St. George's Chapel, where a monument was erected to his memory by his brother, the celebrated Lieut.-general (afterwards Field Marshal) George Wade. The inscription on it gives an amiable account of his modest and unassuming nature, with which he united great learning and abilities.-Cole's MSS., xlv. 244. 334; Cant. Grad.; Monk's Life of Bentley, i. 253; Hist. and Antiq. of Windsor Castle, Chapel, &c., 390. 413.] [W. DENNY, a native of Norfolk ;B.A. 1693;-M.A. 1697.-Cole's MSS., xlv. 334; Cant. Grad.] 4 [J. HANWAY, a native of Middlesex ; B.A. 1693.-Cole's MSS., xlv. 334; Cant. Grad.] 5 [E. LEWIS, was born in Wales, where he possessed a small estate ;-B.A. 1693;— under-secretary to the Earl of Oxford when Secretary of State, to the Earl of Dartmouth, and to Mr. Bromley; and Mem ber of Parliament for Lestwithiel, 1713. He was much in the confidence of Lord Oxford, and sincerely devoted to his interests. He was also most intimate with Swift, of which innumerable proofs are to be found in Swift's letters and works. He had small bequests made to him both by Pope, and by Miss Vanhomrigh. He died, June 10, 1754, aged 83, and lies buried, near his wife, in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey. She died in 1736. There is constant allusion in Swift's correspondence to the tender manner in which she was nursed by her husband, during many years of hopeless sickness. Lewis was nicknamed by Swift, The Shaver, in the lines in his Imitation of Hor. Ep. bk. i.-vii., addressed to Lord Oxford, in 1713: "Harley, the nation's great support, My Lord (who, if a man may say't, &c. &c. And, in Nov. 1723, the Dean gives the following account of his friend's mode of life when out of office :-"The Shaver is an honest friendly man as before; he has a good deal to do to smother his Welsh fire, which you know he has in a greater degree than some would imagine. He posts himself a good part of the year in some warm house, wins the ladies' money at ombre, and convinces them that they are highly obliged to him." Again, in a note written at the back of one of Lewis's letters, "Lewis, who is wiser than ever he was; the best of husbands; I am sure I can say, from my own experience, that he is the best of friends; he was so to me, when I had little hopes I should ever live to thank him." Gay, likewise, thus introduces Lewis into his poetical address to Pope (already quoted, p. 203): "And Lewis, who has never friend forsaken." Cole's MSS., xlv. 334; Cant. Grad.; Swift's Works (Scott), i. 207, ii. 29. 425, iii. 103, xvi. 423, xviii. 509, xix. 29. 107. 116. 144. 380; Gent. Mag. lvi. 1027; Beatson's Parl. Reg. i. 23.] [C. STEPHENS came from Radnorshire. -Cole's MSS., xlv. 334.] 7 [One RALPH GILBERT occurs in the list of Cambridge Graduates as LL.B. 1698, and LL.D. 1705.-Cant. Grad.] '[W. ADAMS, M.A. 1698. He is thus entered in the Matriculation Register at Oxford :—“ 1690, July 4. Guil: Adams 18. J. A. Salop Gen.”—Öxf. Grad.] 2 H. BRYDGES, brother to the Duke of Chandos; archdeacon and prebendary of Rochester [May 20, 1720]; rector of Agmondesham, Bucks; died [May 9], 1728, aged 54. [He was the second son of James, Lord Chandos ;-M.A. 1698;-accumulated the degrees of B.D. and D.D. July 4, 1711;rector of Broadwell, with Adlestrop, Gloucestershire, from 1699 until 1717;-rector of Amersham, Bucks, 1721;-chosen proctor for the diocese of Gloucester, in the Convocation of 1705;—and, in the Convocation of 1713, unanimously elected viceprolocutor, during Dr. Atterbury's attendance as Queen's chaplain, and on other occasions ;-appointed chaplain to Queen Anne, and continued in that post until 1718, when he was removed, probably on account of his Tory politics. his other dignities was added, April 27, 1722, that of prebendary of Reculverland, St. Paul's cathedral; and he was elected visitor of Balliol College, Oxford, June 17, 1723. He died at Bath, but was buried in the family vault at Stanmore Parva, or Whitchurch, Middlesex. He married a granddaughter of Sir Rob. Atkins, sometime Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. His son Robert was admitted a King's Scholar in 1722. To Three sermons, preached by him on special occasions, one of them before the House of Commons, and a speech delivered to the clergy of his archdeaconry, were printed. His character was thus drawn by a contemporary:-"In him sincere piety concurred with noble extraction to render the garment of holiness honorable. His demeanour was cheerful and humble, his manners sweet and unblameable, and his faith lively, firm, and orthodox; goodnature, compassion, generosity, and charity, were visible in the whole course of his life and behaviour." One of Anthony Alsop's odes (see preceding Election) was addressed to him, under the title "Harry-Henricus Bridges."-Oxf. Grad.; Atterbury's Corresp. i. 397. 467, v. 299; Nichols' Lit. Hist. i. 205–6; Hist. Reg., Chron. Diary, v. 47, x. 28, xv. 26; Lipscombe's Bucks, v. 165; Hasted's Kent, ii. 48; Alsop's Odes, 67.] 3 [A. LANGLEY, M.A. 1698.-Oxf. Grad.] [N. BURTON, M.A. 1698;-probably the same individual who was rector of St. Mary-le-Bow, Durham, from 1703 until 1705, and also head master of the Grammar School of that city. He died, December 10, 1713, and was buried within the altar rails of St. Mary's church, above-mentioned. He gave the rails to the altar in that church, 1705.-Oxf. Grad.; Surtees' Durham, iv. 40-1.] 3 [F. LYNN, B.A. 1694;-secretary and cashier to the commissioners for taking care of the sick and wounded seamen, until that office was abolished in May, 1715. He was chosen_secretary to the Royal African Society, June 11, 1720, which office he held till his death, on the 5th of April, 1731, at the age of 59. The representative of this gentleman was in possession of a curious journal kept by him, extracts from which he sent, in January, 1834, to one of the public newspapers, accompanied by a letter, part of which is here given, together with the statements it introduced, as they cannot fail to be interesting to any person at all acquainted with the economy of St. Peter's College. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING MAIL. I subjoin an extract from the manuscript diary, kept (after the manner of one nearly his contemporary, that most amusing, quaint, and precise diurnal recorder of events, Mr. Samuel Pepys) by Mr. Francis Lynn, a young gentleman who commenced his education at Westminster School, in 1681, from whence he was, in 1691, elected off to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he went through the usual academical process to the Bachelor of Arts degree. This course of study occupied 14 years--ten at school, and four at college. The total of charges of every kind, during this term of years, it will be found, amounted to no more than 2137., or an average of 157. and a fraction per annum; which sum, by his own industry, the youth reduced to 1817. 2s. 8d., or less than 137. per annum, showing an enormous disproportion between the expenses of a liberal education in that and the present day, for which the comparative value of money at the two periods referred to, does not afford anything approaching to a justification. The manuscript diary devolved to me as the sole executor of the grandson of Mr. Lynn; it is written in a beautiful hand, and the naiveté of its style, homeliness of some of its particulars, and similarity of the offices filled by the respective writers, Mr. Lynn having been clerk and secretary to the Judge Advocate-General of the Forces and Secretary at War of King William the Third, and afterwards chief secretary of the Royal African Company, remind one forcibly of that other most agreeable of diarists before mentioned. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, WILLIAM YATMAN. Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury Square. I was born the 2nd day of November, 1671, about one of the clock in the morning, in Westminster, and bred up by my father and two elder brothers, JOHN and CHARLES, who were at WestF F minster School, till between nine and ten years old, and then, without having been at any other school, I was put there under the care of Dr. Busby, or rather of Mr. Knipe, the second master, being admitted the very lowest boy in the school, which I passed quite through, and, in the course, was captain of every form. I lodged and dieted at home, so the charge of my schooling, during the eight years from admission till I got into the college, being at 10s. the quarter, was, for eight years, 167.; to Dr. Busby, every Christmas, as a gift, one guinea, 87. 12s.; to Mr. Knipe, ditto, half-a-guinea, 41. 6s.; to the usher, ditto, 5s., 21. In all, besides books, 30l. 18s. In May, 1689, I was elected into the foundation as a King's scholar, having been put by two elections before, for want of friends, but now standing captain, or senior, I was elected in accordingly. Here follows a particular account of expense whilst in Westminster college, taken from my father's pocket-book : May, 1689-3. To entertain my schoolfellows upon my being elected, a usual custom, 78.-6. For my theam making, 5s.; for an old gown for common use, 108.-9. For a trunk, 14s.; nine ells of Holland, for surplice, 17. 14s. 9d.; 16 ells of sheeting, 16s. ; a yard and half of kenting, 1s. 6d.; a remnant more, 1s. ; a King's scholar's cap, 6s.Total, 31. 138. 3d. For admonishing money, i. e. the forfeitures for speaking English, 6d.-16. A Bible, Practice of Piety, and a comb, 4s. 7d.-24. For a new gown, 21. 1s.-Total, 21. 68. 1d. June, 1689-10. This day was admitted into the college by the Dean, and put on my gown.11. For double commons and servants' fees, as customary on this occasion, 17.; pocket-money and candles, 10s. 5d.; new feather bed and bolster, 11. 138.; bedstead cord and mat, 6s.; a rug, 128.; two new blankets, 11s.; a new table, 78.; a canopy to the bed, 78.-Total, 5l. 6s. 5d. 20. Paid to the eight seniors for my freedom, as customary for the captain of the election, 87. 128. July, 1689-8. Paid Mr. Gilbert for a waistcoat, 18s. 6d.; pocket-money, 1s.; poll-tax, 18.11. and 22. Pocket-money, 1s. 6d. Total, 17. 2s. August, 1689-9. Pocket-money, 1s.-12. Pocket-money, 18.-29. Pocket-money, 1s. 6d.— Total, 3s. 6d. Sept. 1689-9. Candles, 5d.-12. Pocketmoney, 18.-16. For Dr. Busby, 17. 18. 6d.-25. Pocket-money, 7d.-30. Barber and bedmaker, 48.-Total, 27. 78. 6d.* October, 1689-4. For Dr. Williams's Catechism, 18.-9. For pocket-money, 6d.-10. Candles, 5d.; pair of under-stockings, 1s. 3d.-15. Pocketmoney, 6d.-25. Pocket-money, 6d.-29. Wax candles, 7d.; cotton candles, 5d.-30. Pocketmoney, 9d.-Total, 58. 11d. November, 1689:-7. A waistcoat altered, 3s. 6d. -10-17. Pocket-money, 2s. 6d.-30. Curtains to my bed, 128.-Total, 188. December, 1689:-3. Candles and pocketmoney, 11d.-13. Pocket-money, 6d.-23. Bar *So in the original; perhaps, therefore, some items are omitted. ber, bedmaker, and self, 5s.-25. Box money to servants, 28.-Total, 8s. 5d. January, 1690-6. To Dr. Busby for two quarters, 21. 38.-7. Pocket-money, 1s. 6d.; to Mr. Knipe, new year's gift, 10s. 9d.-19. Pocketmoney, 6d. Total, 21, 15s. 9d. February, 1690:-2. Pocket-money, 6d.-8. A pair of shoes, 3s. 6d.; candles and faggots, 1s. 5d. -19. Pocket-money, 6d.-Total, 5s. 11d. March, 1690:-4. For tarts, to treat as free-boy on Shrove Tuesday, 10s.-11. For making a coat, 88.-27. Barber and bedmaker, 4s.—Total, 17. 2s. April, 1690:-12. For the election board, and putting up my name in gold letters on the tables, 10s.-19. Stockings and shoes, 78.-21. Candles and pocket-money, 1s. 11d.-Total, 188. 11d. May, 1690-30. A pair of shoes soled, 1s. 2d.; pocket-money, 6d. Total, 1s. 8d. June, 1690:-28. Barber and bedmaker, 48.; pocket-money, 1s.-Total, 5s. July, 1690:-3. Poll-tax, 1s.-14-31. Pocketmoney, 1s. 6d.-Total, 2s. 6d. August, 1690:-6-25. Pocket-money, 2s. 6d. September, 1690:-2. Candles, 10d.-23. For the Doctor's new grammar, 4s.-Total, 4s. 10d. October and November nothing appears. December, 1690:-30. To Dr. Busby for a year's schooling, 41. 6s. January, 1691-2. To Dr. Knipe, for new year's gift, 10s. 9d.; pocket-money since September, at several times, 128.; barber and bedmaker, 88.-Total, 17. 10s. 9d. February, 1691-Nothing appears but five months' candles, 2s. 1d. March, 1691-25. Barber and bedmaker, 48.; pocket-money, 58.-Total, 98. April, 1691-20. To Dr. Busby, quarterage, 17. 1s. 6d.; pocket-money, 3s. 6d.—Total, 11. 5s. -Grand total, 397. 17s. May, 1691-12. I was elected away, captain of the school, to Trinity College, in Cambridge, together with the Hon. Dixey Windsor, Esq., William Shippen, Hugh James, and John Lambe. At the same time, to Oxford, were elected W. Adams, Henry Brydges, Adam Langley, and Nicholas Burton. June, 1691-27. This day I went down to Cambridge, and was admitted in Trinity College, under Mr. Power as my tutor. Expenses attending it-Coach hire, 108.; on the road, Ss. 6d.; at the college, to servants, 128.; to my tutor's sizer, 2s. 6d.; to the library keeper, 2s. 6d.Total, 17. 15s. 6d. My tutor's bill for the first quarter, viz., from Midsummer to Michaelmas, 1691, called in college. Quarta, 4ta.-July, August, September, 1691. Tuition, 17.; monies, 17, 14s.; bookseller, 78. 6d.; chamber rent, 12s. 6d.; tailor, 1s. 6d.; bedmaker, 4s.; shoemaker, 8s.; laundress, 5s.; chandler and stationer, 4s. 10d.; sizings, month 1, 16s. 6d.; sizings, month 2, 17. 188.; sizings, month 3, 17. 11s. 1d.-Total, 9l. 2s. 11fd.-T. POWER. Extraordinary charges in settlement: - Upholsterer, 7. 12s. 7d.; income, furniture of the chambers, 11. 3s.; butler, upon admission, 18.; porter, ditto, 1s.; tailor, for cap, &c., 158.; smith, |